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CAMERA LUCIDA

INTERNATIONAL JEWELLERY CONTEST & EXHIBITION
An international collaboration in which original jewelry objects are transformed and re-interpreted by teams of two. Join a designer you’ve never met before and work together in an experimental project!

Assamblage – The Romanian National Contemporary Jewelry Association launches the international contest “CAMERA LUCIDA”. Supported by AFCN – The Administration of the National Cultural Fund, the project is dedicated to the upcoming commemoration of 100 years since the ending of World War I. Project Outline: Jewelry as a new way of storytelling. Social jewelry and ethic design The contest and the resulting exhibition is a challenge to regard jewelry as a new way to convey meaning, as a metaphor for communication, symbols and language in contemporary design. In a conceptual discourse about the assumption of the common past and cultural identity, a number of 20 designers will be brought together in a collaborative project.

Who can apply?

Contemporary jewelry designers regardless of age, experience and materials used in their work, are eligible to apply. There are no application fees to enter the contest.
NEW DEADLINE 13th of August

OBSESSED! Jewellery in The Netherlands

Mark November 2017 in your calendar as the hottest jewellery month of the year. A cluster of major jewellery-related events will take place in cultural institutions all over The Netherlands, spanning over the period of 20 days.

ICONS AT PLAY | CALL FOR ENTRIES

Brooklyn Metal Works invites you to apply:

Our objective is to showcase work that reinterprets cultural symbols and icons through the use of material, scale, wearability, and interaction. Our goal is to curate work that challenges and “plays” with the viewer’s understanding of what that symbol has come to represent. We are interested in icons and symbols that appear in the commercial jewelry world such as the bow, heart, snakes, crowns, keys and the faceted stone as well as in our everyday lives through emojis and other cultural symbols. We want to see these symbols interpreted from a different viewpoint, providing the viewer/wearer a new lens to interpret and experience icons; challenging the viewers preconditioned definition of what the icon represents.

Anneleen Swillen

Designer Anneleen Swillen is inspired by the way daily goods are consumed and (re)presented.

The jewellery pieces from the collection CONTAINERS (2014) and CONTAINERS in Context (2014 – 2015) are a research for the aesthetic potential from disposable packaging and are inspired by their interesting but unnoticed design. Through their use as moulds, the negative space of the package will be made visible and materialized in plaster and resin. Challenged by this ambivalence, between waste and its aesthetic potential, Swillen’s designs and materials play with the notion of precious and worthless. Through production and reproduction she investigates the industrially manufactured and its potential applications in craft. The repetitive making process, which refers to the mechanized production of goods, offers the opportunity to produce series of work as well as to make unique pieces. The neckpieces and brooches from the CONTAINERS collections will challenge the wearer to give value to the subordinate product and will draw the attention to the intrinsic but often unnoticed qualities of things in our everyday surroundings.

Photographer Elio Germani gave special consideration to the valorization of Swillen’s concept and the method lying behind her CONTAINERS series of jewels. For this shooting he decided to focus on the background, that he conceived as a structure able to welcome the extremely various shapes of each piece. The photographer’s aim was to accommodate the intrinsic coherence of the series, which reflects a soft fusion of concept and shape. He has therefore created a frame capable of welcoming every piece. The shapes of disposable plastic packaging that make up the series delicately inspire the structure. Even if the background refers to the shapes and concepts of the jewels, it also plays a complementary role: the opacity contrasts with the brightness, as vivid colors stand out from the black and white pattern.